David Davis has done the right thing.

David Davis has definitely made the right move in resigning from the Shadow Cabinet in protest at the erosion of civil liberties by the Labour party. Gordon Brown describing this as a “stunt that has become a farce” is simply describing his own politics and his own party. He is describing his own government and their growing abuse of the people of the UK. 

This is an admirable move on the part of the former Tory MP. David Cameron is betraying his party by not supporting his former Shadow Minister and taking a stand against the increasingly blatant intrusion into our privacy and civil liberties by a government that sees its role as moral, cultural and legal dictator. Dictating without reference to the people an entire library’s worth of controlling and intrusive legislation. Orwell’s fiction is becoming fact in the UK in 2008.

I hope the people of Hull ignore the MacKenzie joke and see that for what it really is, a performance, a bad performance, very much in keeping with the sad excuse that is The Sun.

David Cameron is a real disappointment too, he definitely should have seized the opportunity and taken up the argument that David Davis is making. 

BBC coverage has not been particularly transparent either, it seems there has been a slight air of condescension towards David Davis in their News Channel broadcasts. That’s a shame and so is the official Tory line, but that’s not a surprise coming from the party that introduced the Criminal Justice Bill in the early 90′s.

Like the present administration, they too are quite keen on their own brand of ‘voyeuristic tendency’ and this perverse “population monitoring and control data” fetish all governments tend to find irresistible. It has never been clearer than in 2008 with the current depraved  behaviour of some governments around the world.

Examples can be found of critical and criminal abuse of human rights in every part of the globe, not just in Burma, China and North Korea but ‘democracies’ like America and UK and also all over Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

In obvious extreme cases and even in the more subtle and deceptive cases like in the UK, there is a general assault on humanity, human rights, freedom of thought, expression and in some parts of the world, an attack on actual physical safety and liberty. War and atrocities perpetrated by people voted into or having claimed illegitimate overall ruling power. There are few if any national governments without guilt or blood on their hands.

 

 

 

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